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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






2. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






3. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






4. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






5. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






6. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






7. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






8. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






9. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






10. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






11. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






12. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






13. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






14. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






15. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






16. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






17. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






18. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






19. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






20. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






21. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






22. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






23. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






24. Graphic display of schedule related information.






25. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






26. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






27. Narrative description of products - services or results






28. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






29. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






30. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






31. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






32. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones






33. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






34. Budgeted cost of work performed






35. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






36. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






37. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






38. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






39. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






40. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






41. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






42. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






43. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






44. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






45. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






46. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






47. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






48. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






49. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






50. A product - result or service generated by a process